Summer has arrived - Page 10

all talking about roses.. i have never been a lover of roses.. but i think as i have got older my choice of plants has changed i have this year for the first time done fuschias.. i will add pic of them later.. all taken from cuttings i have taken as walking past gardens or been given by a friend who has them..

and i have also started roses.. we have two very very old ones in our garden.. pink flowers one very old fashioned rose full tight with petals and flowers continuously if i dead head it and one that has one lot of pink flowers and more open singular petal flower and only flowers the once..

they have started to get old and tired.. and one is in totally wrong place.. so last year i took three cuttings from each of them as i read on here.. and i lost 1 on one and 2 on other.. so now i can grow them on and plant out in new borders.. and dig othes up without worrying if they die in the move..

i will get some pictures of them and hopefully someone on here can identify the plants for me.. as i have no idea what they are called.

and maybe give me some ides for roses i can have that stay as bush form rather than climbers..

Carnaby has different stamens John- kind of open whereas Dr R's are closed. It's also much lighter - more pink and pale pink.

But looking at the pics on Google the stamens on Dr R are red (oops, edit: that was Lincoln Star with red stamens) whereas on mine they're creamy white. Also the Dr R I saw only has 6 sepals - again, mine has 8

John, why not ask the nursery you bought it from - they are hardly likely to have stocked two such similar plants and will have a record of the name.

Sadly I visit so many different Garden Centres & Nurserys I can't remember which one it was now (it was about 5 years ago when we got it). The plant hasn't done much until this year when amazingly it has just suddenly taken off. It was next to an Azalea which was planted in Ericacious compost and we moved the Azalea to another part of the garden with all its soil. That's probably why it's now taken off (our soil is mostly ph7). The Azalea also obviously has liked the move as it's done better this year than ever before.

for anyone interested in this Clematis puzzle, including John H, you might like to have a look at these gorgeous Clematis photos I found on Flickr... they include Dr Ruppel, Carnaby, and another to consider in Bee's Jubilee... amongst some very beautiful others... that make me feel I want to rush out and buy a load...

Hi Salino, Really beautifull pics of clematis on those sites - well done. Still not sure about the Dr Ruppell; close (closer I think than Carnaby) - I'll take an A4 photo with me to Gardeners World Live on Weds and see if I can get it identified for sure.

Thought i'd share this really nice aquilegia, i know they are common as muck, but this lavender one is really pretty. It's in what i call my wild flower border outside the garden leading down to the field. Very nice.. may split it when it get's bigger and make it into the actual garden! I think it's a "swan" type.

Oh.. and whoever suggested the climbing hydrangea.. i was down the garden centre on saturday and picked one up

Lovely art - the third picture of the droopy bells is partcularly gorgeous - does it come from a bulb??

Andy -I love those fancy aquiliegia - I have added a few to my collection this year -all named after american states. I have lots of the native ones too - so hopefully they are something that likes my conditions.

Chicky, I think I got them in a plant auction last year; so just emptied the pots into the ground, but should imagine they are a bulb. They have multiplied quite a bit and formed a little clump in poor shallow soil, in pretty much full sun (ha, what full sun?)